ABSTRACT
The organization and high-handed methods of the Paris peace conference must be taken into consideration to create a league of nations. The character of the League of Nations should undergo a modification when drafted, and that its final organization should conform to the general spirit and purposes of the treaties. The original covenant draft was modified accordingly, with the result that the League of Nations, as embodied in the treaty of Versailles, does not bind the great powers to deal justly with the other states or even with each other. Vital matters were taken up in conferences of the premiers of Great Britain, France, and Italy, who decided upon the terms of the treaty with Turkey, which had not been settled by the Paris conference. Equality of treatment commercially in mandated territories was guaranteed only to members of the league, thus excluding Germany from the markets of her former possessions and of the Ottoman Empire.
